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...He said commodity prices could drive headline inflation, but that investing in them provided ballast against market volatility, due to their low correlation with equities and bonds....
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...Robert Murphy, chief executive of RCM Galerie, Paris, says that Manfred Mohr, a German artist now considered a godfather of the genre, would keep quiet about his technique for making his series of intricate...
...Robert Cohen, a portfolio manager at asset manager DoubleLine Capital, said the rapid shift in expectations around the Fed was “driving everything” in the market....
...Who River Homes House, Greenwich, £2.5mn Where On Ballast Quay, a cobbled street on the Thames Path in Greenwich, south-east London....
...The ballast of the programme was provided by the two cello sonatas....
...I often think of the mother in Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie, filling the “crannies of her life with a ballast of wayward objects”....
...“I’m shocked at how resilient markets have been,” says Robert Michele, the chief investment officer of JPMorgan Asset Management, the US bank’s $3tn investment arm....
...This is the ancient ballast of the planet into which his family’s vision will be drilled....
...Robert Buckland, Citigroup’s chief global equity strategist, said he was pitching the FTSE to his clients as ballast against a fall in pricey US stocks....
...The prominent Leaver provided vital Brexit ballast to Mr Johnson’s first cabinet but the two are not close....
...While the US-China commercial relationship provided ballast to the relationship for many years, corporate opinion towards China has also turned more negative as a result of claims of intellectual property...
...“This is different because Trump is qualitatively different from anything and anyone we have had before,” said Robert Cooper, a veteran diplomat for the EU and UK....
...“The business community has been the main ballast and if we lose that it will have a major impact.”...
...A single failed gilt auction would not be catastrophic to government funding plans but it would mean there was “grit in the machine”, says Sir Robert....
...“Better than expected earnings allowed the financials market to finally exhale,” said Robert Smalley, a credit analyst at UBS in New York....
...Gordon Brown launched his period as shadow chancellor with endorsements from US professors Robert Reich and Richard Freeman....
...Artworld is buzz, style, money, blockbuster openings, gallerista-fashionistas eyeing each other; theory-clotted higher drivel struggling to attach critical ballast to the lightweight and the forgettable,...
...“We know that salt is speeding up the damage to cables and concrete and rails and ballast and all the things that it takes to maintain a reliable crossing under the Hudson River,” Mr Boardman said....
...Hope that there is ballast to prevent London heading off to its own financial stratosphere. Hope that cities will man the resistance against a surge of illiberal values....
...FT Comment JKX’s latest annual results do not provide much ballast for the former FTSE 250 constituent’s dwindling band of supporters....
...Controversy over the Valemaxes has grown after Vale Beijing, the third of the carriers, developed cracks in its ballast tank during loading for its maiden voyage in northern Brazil earlier this month, raising...
...Lance Hammer’s Ballast, a sombre backwoods drama, has taken three years to journey from the Berlin Film Festival to Britain....
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